We are always looking for more data! [[Data Collection and Contribution, Digitization Cost Calculator|Please click here for instructions on how to collect and contribute data to the Digitization Cost Calculator.]]

We are always looking for more data! [[Data Collection and Contribution, Digitization Cost Calculator|Please click here for instructions on how to collect and contribute data to the Digitization Cost Calculator.]]

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===Working Group Membership===

The Cost Assessment working group always welcomes new members. Members meet regularly to work on different projects to improve the calculator and help collect more data for the Digitization Cost Calculator. If you are interested in joining, please join our

The Cost Assessment working group always welcomes new members. Members meet regularly to work on different projects to improve the calculator and help collect more data for the Digitization Cost Calculator. If you are interested in joining, please join our

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[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-aig-cost-assessment Digital Library AIG Cost Assessment groupd] and speak up! You're also welcome to drop into any of our standing meetings which are listed on the [https://digital-conferences-calendar.info/ DLF Community Calendar]

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[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-aig-cost-assessment Digital Library AIG Cost Assessment google group] and speak up! You're also welcome to drop into any of our standing meetings which are listed on the [https://digital-conferences-calendar.info/ DLF Community Calendar]

Next meeting will be on '''January 28th'''. You can also go to our [https://docs.google.com/a/ucsb.edu/document/d/1TbUz5mThnxoJKDjCk_L2_p8SKEzye4OO7fnjVCrGjks/edit?usp=sharing 2019 Agendas and Meeting Notes] document to see what is coming up.

DLF Cost Assessment Working Group

The Cost Assessment group’s primary task is to collect, aggregate, and share data on the time it takes to perform various tasks involved in the digitization process to help with project planning and benchmarking. When the group formed at the 2014 DLF Forum, we found few practical resources geared towards helping the community determine the cost of digitization. To help address this gap, we built a Digitization Cost Calculator Digitization Cost Calculator that allows individuals to enter information about a project and get back an estimate of the staffing costs and time needed to complete it based on real data from the community.

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Working Group Membership

The Cost Assessment working group always welcomes new members. Members meet regularly to work on different projects to improve the calculator and help collect more data for the Digitization Cost Calculator. If you are interested in joining, please join our
Digital Library AIG Cost Assessment google group and speak up! You're also welcome to drop into any of our standing meetings which are listed on the DLF Community Calendar

The group’s initial goal for 2018 is to survey the community and conduct user interviews and user testing of the calculator. We plan to use the information captured from the community to help plan and prioritize our future work.

2017 focused on making improvements to the Calculator. We organized the second annual Day of Data II in July to collect additional community data. We also added a number of [calculator enhancements calculator enhancements], including the addition of new fields and new features.

The data definitions authored by the cost assessment working group informed a modified structure of the calculator with expanded capabilities that was completed in 2016 with the assistance of Wayne Graham, Technical Director at CLIR and DLF. We needed at least one set of data in each of the 20 categories, as well as for each type of image capture device and for each level of metadata creation and quality control to support the modified structure. We gathered 85 data submissions in summer of 2016 with a Day of Data campaign, spent the fall reviewing and normalizing submissions, and released the 2.0 version of the calculator on November 7, 2016.

In 2014 a beta version of a Library Digitization Cost Calculator was developed to assist organizations in estimating the costs for digitizing collections and initiate a conversation at the 2014 DLF Forum around cost assessment in digital libraries. The original Digitization Cost Calculator was built as a proof of concept and contains data from only a handful of institutions. In spring of 2014, the Cost Assessment working group of the DLF Assessment Interest Group was subsequently founded. This group was tasked with drafting best practices and guidelines for the collection of time data for various digitization processes, which are used to standardize collection of such data in the field as well as to guide data submissions to the Digital Cost Calculator. The guidelines and definitions are organized according to some of the typical stages of a library project.